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Hillary touring the country eliciting 'input' on Hillarycare. A dozen speakers, babbling nonsense (example - a millionaire farmer's daughter claiming her parents could not afford to pay $1,000 a month for family health insurance).

Hillary says not a word, appears bored.

Finally former Governor Robert Ray (R), at the time president of Iowa Blue Cross/Shield, with the first intelligent comments of the day. Not much more than what every second year student of economics would be expected to know, but well summarized and in clear English.

Hillary explodes. She practically jumps out of her chair attacking Governor Ray. All the problems of American health care can be laid at the feet of insurance companies like his (which is non-profit, by the way). The venom was tangible.

The entire room goes silent. Even the people who knew nothing about health care when they entered the room, and had learned nothing of value up to that point, knew Hillary was a poseur. A political wind sniffer, who had just mis-sniffed the entire room.

I'm hardly surprised Hillary, the presumptive nominee, lost badly to Barack Obama in the 2008 Iowa caucuses. Iowans who meet her, don't like her, because she smells like their barnyards.

BHL is a professional propagandist who probably did more to promote the intervention in Libya than anyone else. So it shouldn't surprise that there isn't even a trace of feeling responsible for the mess that Libya now is.

Wow! What a puff-piece! I know the Clinton campaign is desperate – what with such a long litany of “scandals” and a dearth of true accomplishments – but this is truly grasping at straws. My comment is too brief to do justice to the complete list of trespasses, now on volume three. Most anyone - not of the Progressive persuasion - in the US who committed such crimes would have been convicted and sent to prison long ago. And yet, here we are with candidate Clinton sans bright orange jump suit running for our nation’s highest office.

In my view her campaign is already done. Stick a fork in it. At this point, this (puff) opinion piece is irrelevant. “What difference at this point does it make?” It’s too late for Hillary. The fact that she is even running for office and not behind bars is a sad commentary on the state of the US political system.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses, And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!

“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.” ~Charles de Gaulle

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office - Aesop

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. – Clarence Darrow

In your encounters she must have told you her famous phrase "All of us face hard choices in our lives". Is it true that by the end of her tenure as Secretary of State she said she had gained a truly global perspective on many of the major trends reshaping the landscape of the 21st century, from economic inequality to climate change to revolution in energy, communication and health. She has a just formula for the United States to compete and thrive in an interdependent world. She thinks she is able to distinguish the trendlines from the headlines and describe the progress occurring throughout the world. Hard Choice my friend.

Ms. Clinton faces a difficult challenge. She must appear to be strong and decisive without appearing to be a smartass lacking in a certain level of circumspection and humility. Not an easy tightrope to walk, I think.

Meanwhile, the assumption that "time is needed... to build a state and construct a democracy..." would sit better with me if it acknowledged that it might be a very, very, very, very very LONG time. In many ways, for example, we're still waiting for it to arrive here in the United States. Perhaps she's noticed?

That's a beautiful portrait, but we're not voting for a portrait. We're voting for a prison with a track record, which is pro-war to the point that she is more like GWBush than anyone else. Thanks, but no thanks.